{"id":101973,"date":"2025-10-04T00:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T00:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/101973\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T00:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T00:08:12","slug":"postecoglou-sack-nottm-forest-axe-decision-revealed-as-concerned-marinakis-could-break-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/101973\/","title":{"rendered":"Postecoglou sack? Nottm Forest axe decision revealed as &#8216;concerned&#8217; Marinakis could break &#8216;record&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, Ange Postecoglou\u2019s job at Nottingham Forest is already \u2018in serious jeopardy\u2019 following a string of poor results.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/ange-postecoglou\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Postecoglou<\/strong><\/a> was appointed to replace Nuno Espirito Santo at Nottm Forest, who dismissed the former Spurs and Wolves boss following his fallout with\u00a0Evangelos Marinakis and Edu.<\/p>\n<p>This was a controversial decision as Nuno did a great job at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/nottingham-forest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nottm Forest<\/strong>,<\/a> taking the Premier League side from a relegation battle to European qualification.<\/p>\n<p>However, Nuno\u2019s position at Nottm Forest became untenable amid his fallout with the top brass, who opted for Postecoglou to implement an attacking brand of football.<\/p>\n<p>This put Postecoglou in a difficult position, though he has not been as pragmatic as he could have been, with performances and results declining following his arrival.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/opinion-amorim-nottm-forest-postecoglou-man-utd-imanager-swap-deal-makes-sense\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Why Amorim to Nottm Forest and Postecoglou to Man Utd in manager swap deal makes sense\u2026<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under Postecoglou, Nottm Forest are winless in six games across all competitions and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2025\/10\/03\/ange-postecoglou-future-nottingham-forest-marinakis-europa\/\" target=\"_blank\">a report from The Telegraph\u2018s John Percy claims<\/a> he is already \u2018in serious jeopardy\u2019, with the head coach \u2018fighting for his future\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Marinakis is said \u2018to be growing seriously concerned by the results and performances\u2019, while he is \u2018hopeful of an upturn\u2019 and is \u2018reluctant to dismiss another manager\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is still pointed out that he could lose his job if Nottm Forest lose against Newcastle United this weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2018It is acknowledged that this weekend\u2019s game at Newcastle is a very difficult fixture, another poor performance and defeat could end with Postecoglou claiming the record of the shortest ever Premier League reign.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Marinakis will ultimately make the decision on the former Tottenham manager\u2019s future, while he will seek opinion from chief football officer Ross Wilson and Edu Gaspar, the club\u2019s global head of football.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>MORE NOTTM FOREST COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/next-nottingham-forest-manager-postecoglou-sack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Who will be next Nottingham Forest manager after Ange Postecoglou sack?<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/premier-league-sack-race-arteta-amorim-nuno\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd penny-pinching, Postecoglou pain keeps Amorim second in sack race<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/marinakis-hired-postecoglou-one-reason-forest-survival-secondary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u2018Marinakis hired Postecoglou for one reason\u2019 with Forest Prem survival secondary: \u2018Forget everything else\u2019<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite this, a respected Twitter account with a \u2018team of five elite reporters\u2019 claims Postecoglou will have until the international break in November to save himself.<\/p>\n<p>They said on X:\u00a0Exclusive: Nottingham Forest owners will give Ange Postecoglou till November international break to improve results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are surprised with the current results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of this weekend\u2019s match against Newcastle, Postecoglou refused to be drawn on his future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a valid assumption in modern football that there is always a manager that is under pressure. That\u2019s just part and parcel of what we do, but I don\u2019t think that way,\u201d Postecoglou said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPut it this way: I knew I was getting sacked at Tottenham about three or four months before I did, but that didn\u2019t stop me from winning something. It doesn\u2019t enter my head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy responsibility lies in making sure this football club progresses and gets to a position where it can challenge for things. If I start putting timelines to that or worry about what is going to happen next week then I am not performing the role I have been given. I just don\u2019t think it is helpful to anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to reports, Ange Postecoglou\u2019s job at Nottingham Forest is already \u2018in serious jeopardy\u2019 following a string of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[42432,18,38491,794,19,17,5,7236,795,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-101973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ange-postecoglou","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-evangelos-marinakis","11":"tag-home-page","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nottingham-forest","16":"tag-premier-league","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}